The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Audible Audio Edition)
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Harley-Davidson unveiled its first electric motorcycle Thursday.

Outsourcing: Entrepreneur: The #1 Guide to Outsourcing! - Build Your Online Business by Outsourcing with Freelancers & Virtual Assistants! (Virtual Assistant, ... Freelancers, Fiver, Success Secrets) (Kindle Edition)
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Small Business: Hot Small Business Ideas! - 25 Smokin' Hot Start Up Business Ideas To Spark Your Entrepreneurship Creativity And Have You In Business Fast! ... How To Start A Business, Passive Income) (Kindle Edition)
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T-Mobile is bringing its "un-carrier" mantra to Internet radio: The company is teaming up with music company Rhapsody to launch unRadio, an ad-free music-streaming service that lets users play music on-demand as long as they want. unRadio is free for T-Mobile's Simple Choice customers, which includes those with an unlimited phone and 4G LTE data plan for about $80 a month. T-Mobile customers without unlimited data can get the music-streaming service for $4.



Thad McIlroy, a Vancouver-based digital publishing consultant, said, “This is the best phone yet for bibliophiles,” when talking about the new Amazon Fire Phone, the company’s long awaited first attempt at the smartphone market. Unlike Amazon’s principle competitors in this market, Apple and Samsung, are not companies as focused on books and reading as Amazon is. Samsung had plans to launch an ebook business but quickly abandoned them after less than a year.

Shares of American Apparel soared 16% in pre-market trading Thursday after the retailer's board of directors voted to oust CEO Dov Charney. The board said late Wednesday that it has suspended Charney and plans to terminate him for cause. In a statement, Board member Allan Mayer said the "decision to replace Mr. Charney grew out of an ongoing investigation into alleged misconduct." Charney has been the subject of several lawsuits alleging inappropriate sexual conduct with female employees.

Facebook appears to be a suffering a major outage this morning, with the site unavailable in multiple regions around the world, and Facebook social plug-ins on other websites also acting up. The Facebook.com site is unavailable in the UK and in other European locations including France and Belgium. It also appears to be offline in parts of Asia, including India. US Twitter users are tweeting about the site being down for them as well.



Samsung has launched an upgraded variant of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, in its home market of Korea. The Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A, has a 5.1-inch screen with a super-crisp QHD resolution, making it the smartphone with the highest pixel density of around 557 ppi. For comparison, LG's recently launched G3 has the same resolution, but on a larger, 5.5-inch screen, making for an effective pixel density of 538 ppi.



If Amazon does end releasing its long-rumored smartphone, the device will be one more market in which the online retailer goes head-to-head with Apple. The two consumer electronics companies already compete in the tablet market with the Kindle and the iPad, the streaming video and television market with the Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, and the digital book and music retail markets.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ReelSEO today announced that the 2014 Reel Video Summit, which will be held July 24-25 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, will feature speakers from YouTube and BuzzFeed. The ReelSummit is where marketers, storytellers, and retailers gather to get serious about online video. Bonfire Labs, a Creative Content Agency and one of this year’s event sponsors, created the event promo video entitled, “The History of Video Marketing Part 1: Revolution.” The sequel, which

Google has a good and a bad problem in Europe. It has 72.4 percent of the smartphone market share, which is a ‘nice to have’ but not so nice when it attracts attention from Europe’s notoriously muscular competition authorities. It’s now facing new accusations of anti-competitive behavior in mobile. Aptoide, a Portuguese company that runs a third party apps marketplace — claims Google is abusing its dominant position to push users away from app stores that compete with Google Play. Yesterday it filed a complaint with European Union regulators.



ANACORTES, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--hyperfund (hyperfund.com) is the first crowdfunding platform providing all three primary strategies for businesses raising capital on the internet with rewards, security, and debt crowdfunding options. hyperfund enables startups and growing businesses to take advantage of the explosive growth of crowdfunding and the SEC’s new General Solicitation Rules. The investing ecosystem continues to evolve as traditional sources of funding, angel investors and venture c

Apple CEO Tim Cook is the subject of a new profile in the New York Times today, and the profile includes plenty of background information about the executive and his commitment to human rights and environmental issues. But it also contained some information about the rumored iWatch project, how it’s being put together behind the scenes and when it’s slated for public release. Cook is said to be less hands-on in terms of product development than former CEO Steve Jobs, who was known to be maniacal about even the smallest details of new devices.



Choose Yourself! (Kindle Edition)
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now, tech trends. news you can use on the biggest shifts in technology, software and devices that affect our lives. facebook is making some new changes. the social network can watch its users activity even more - but soon users will be able to find out why. jericka duncan explains. every time you log on to facebook the social network is tracking your online habits.... to know what advertisments you might be interested in. the process is explained in a new company video. "when you like pages and post click on stories in newsfeed- this helps us determine whether or not an ad will be relevant to you." the social networking service is not only logging your habits on their site, the company now says it will start following users activity on other sites as well. "now they're going to be looking at external websites that your logging in through your facebook account." if you click on a retailer's website through facebook and start looking at new televisions - your facebook news feed could start showing tv ads soon after. google and hundreds of other websites also use this targeted ad technology. but facebook will tell you why - in the coming weeks there will be a new feature ...... "just click the top right corner of the ad and click or tap on why am i seeing this ad?" a pop up will give you an explanation of why the ad was placed. the feature also allows you tell facebook which ads you want . "they are going to serve up ads to you no matter what the point of view here is you might have a little bit of a say over the kinds of ads that you're seeing and you're not seeing." facebook started sending alerts about the changes to users today - and says they will take effect in the coming weeks. jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. facebook will allow users to opt out of some features. experts say you can also limit how much websites track you by deleting your browsing history. don't look now, but there's another music streaming service looking to get its business from you. amazon quietly launched its streaming service thursday. it's free to those with an amazon prime membership. the initial rollout will make about a million songs available for streaming and downloads. that's far fewer than services like spotify or rhapsody. we want to remind you to "like" the wdef news 12 the morning facebook page. just search for us on facebook to find us. when you do, you can converse with us in our question of

According to Le Monde newspaper, French bank BNP Paribas was warned in 2006 by a high-ranking U.S. Treasury official and in three reports by legal experts that it risked being penalized for breaking U.S. sanctions. Since France's biggest bank flagged the risk of a big fine in February this year, sources close to the affair have said it ignored early warnings of the risks it faced. They pointed out that the alleged offending transactions being investigated by U.S. authorities continued until 2009.



Microsoft made an Android version of its Outlook Web App available to a handful of devices Thursday. The app, which has the same features as the iOS version, is a pre-release and is limited to users with Office 365 for business accounts. For now, the app is limited to devices running Android KitKat 4.4 or higher that have "small" or "normal"-sized screens.



Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune (Hardcover)
By Bill Dedman

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French ministers met on Thursday to discuss the fate of cash-strapped engineering group Alstom as Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries hatched a plan to beat an offer by U.S. conglomerate General Electric. The German and Japanese groups said on Wednesday they were discussing a joint offer for Alstom's energy assets that would compete with GE's $17 billion proposal and, according to the Nikkei newspaper, would be worth around $9.8 billion. Two sources familiar with the Siemens-Mitsubishi plan said it would not be a direct buyout of Alstom's power assets but would rather set up one or several joint holdings in power.